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HEALTH EDUCATION & BEHAVIOR
Volume 38, Issue 3, Pages 282-292Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1090198110372877
Keywords
neighborhood; food environment; African Americans; nutrition; food shopping
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This qualitative study sought to understand food acquisition behaviors and environmental factors that influence those behaviors among women in a low-income African American community with limited food resources. We drew on in-depth interviews with 30 women ages 21 to 45 years recruited from a community health center in Chicago, Illinois. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Emergent themes revealed that women identified multiple environmental barriers-material, economic, and social-interactional-to acquiring food in an acceptable setting. In response, they engaged in several adaptive strategies to manage or alter these challenges, including optimizing, settling, being proactive, and advocating. These findings indicate that efforts to improve neighborhood food environments should address not only food availability and prices but also the physical and social environments of stores.
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